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Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW anchor, blasting Cankles for his attacks on female reporters and calling out the media for refusing to stand up to him:

“He called ABC's Rachel Scott today, quote, obnoxious and terrible. December 6th, he called Caitlin Collins, quote, stupid and nasty. On November 27th, he said, are you stupid? to CBS journalist Nancy Cordes. On November 26th, he called The New York Times Katie Rogers, quote, ugly. On November 18th, he called ABC's Mary Bruce terrible and insubordinate. November 14th, he told a Bloomberg reporter, quote, quiet piggy. This is sick shit. This is sick. And anyone in the room is in the room to do a job for their viewers or their readers. But they should go home tonight and think about whether their sisters or their daughters or their moms or their sons or their husbands or their fathers think that there's something else they should do the next time he calls a female journalist obnoxious, terrible, stupid, nasty, stupid, ugly, terrible, insubordinate or piggy. Because maybe if [Cankles] can't live without being on TV and maybe if they said, you know what, we're going to have some solidarity like they did with him wanting to change the names of oceans. I mean, we're either going to normalize this and then you're going to hear all sorts of prominent people calling women all sorts of names. I'm sure by the time I get off TV, I'll have a few of those myself. But we're either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more.”

The press corps’ refusal to stand up for their female colleagues is not only a despicable show of cowardice, it’s also enabling Cankles’ campaign to bully his way into state-sponsored media, where all he gets are softball questions and praise because everyone is too afraid to stand up to him.

But we’ve seen before that Cankles and his regime back down when someone stands up to them and so we need the White House press corps to grow some backbone and start standing up for women.

And America.

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Talbert Swan, bishop of the Vermont Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, on America’s ongoing ties to racism and white supremacy:

"If one white woman accused me of rape my career would be over. A white man accused of assault by twenty-two women being able to run for a second term as president with half the country still supporting him, is all you need to know about racism, white male patriarchy and white supremacy.”

This is where we need to face our shame, that we have allowed a white male convicted felon and sexual predator to be given power over this country.

It’s our collective shame, though half of us don’t even acknowledge it.

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Thomas Massie, GOP Representative :

“I am sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to rape island … that is what they have coming. So, how will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when there are men, rich men in handcuffs being perp-walked to the jail. Until then, there is still a cover-up.”

I will have the popcorn at the ready when these pedophiles are arrested … or, perhaps, because they are mostly rich and white, if they are arrested.

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Elena Kagan, Supreme Court Justice, tearing into the Conservative SCOTUS gang in a scathing dissent against their decision to let Texas go ahead with Cankles’ election-rigging scheme:

“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision. That is why we are supposed to use a clear-error standard of review—why we are supposed to uphold the District Court’s decision that race-based line-drawing occurred (even if we would have ruled differently) so long as it is plausible. Without so much as a word about that standard, this Court today announces that Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today’s order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right. And today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race. Because this Court’s precedents and our Constitution demand better, I respectfully dissent.”

Alito and company have no problem depriving millions of Americans of their political voice as long as it serves their extremist right-wing, Nationalist Chistian AKA Nat-C political agenda. The Constitution, like everything else, simply exists for them when it is convenient and is easily ignored when it is not.

Every one of the rightwing puppet masters should be impeached at the first opportunity and removed from the court, replaced with people who will actually uphold their oath to the Constitution.

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Holland Taylor, actor, speaking about her partner, Sarah Paulson, at the unveiling of Paulsen’s  star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:

“Sarah, the actress, is first of all a wild creature in the animal kingdom. Warm-blooded, instinctive, mysterious. And Sarah is dangerous—trust me in this—not dangerous like a snake, more like a mongoose. You know, those darling furry, little creatures that kill snakes. Nothing interferes with her laser perception of her character’s traits, its habitat, vulnerabilities, its heroism, its ugliness, terrible truths, its comic pathos. She zeros into a story’s central struggle, where most of us aren’t even aware of our own. Her acting is as honest as our faith and as complicated as chemistry. She’s not deceiving us, she is practicing magic. Truth to tell, it is these relationships where Sarah is most complex, dedicated and giving. Sometimes it’s hard to believe she’s an actress. She breaks the mold, throws assumptions out the window, does it her way. She will always surprise us. Hollywood does well to honor her. And just in case she doesn’t know it, she has a permanent shining star on my street. I love you, darling.”

Paulson and Taylor began dating in 2015 and have had to repeatedly defend their 31-year age gap relationship causing Paulsen to explain:

“If anyone wants to spend any time thinking I’m strange for loving the most spectacular person on the planet, then that’s their problem.”

It’s love, y’all, and respect and trust and admiration, and then more love. I only hope that Carlos thinks of me as a ‘darling, dangerous little mongoose.’

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It's Snarkurday!

Poor Chrissy Brown just can’t catch a break. He was set to appear on The Daily Show this week but, wait … what … is that Nick Cannon being interviewed by Trevor Noah instead? Yup, and all because a band of staffers for the show shrieked in unison, “Oh. Hell. No.” to a Brown guest spot.

When the staff at TDS demanded a Brown-free show, host Trevor Noah suggested that they use Chris’ spot to talk about domestic abuse but the staff wasn’t having it. And producers won’t confirmed that Brownie was bumped, but are simply sayin g they hope to “reschedule” him in the future.

And that snub comes on the heels of Chrissy’s Down under Tour, in both Australia and New Zealand, being cancelled because those countries don’t like abusers in their midst.

See, back in September, immigration officials in Australia let Chrissy know that the only way he was getting into their country would be if Johnny Depp and Amber Heard put him in a Yorkie costume and smuggled him in because Australia was going to deny him a visa based on what his violent past. Chrissy’s team of lawyers — on duty 24/7 — tried to get Aussie officials to change their minds, but that wasn’t happening so Chris cancelled the tours in both Australia and New Zealand.

So, here’s where we stand: Chrissy can’t go to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Great Britain or The Daily Show because he’s an abuser.

Looks like he’s still our problem.

Every year we hear the tales of how infrequently Tom Cruise ALLEGEDLY — I don't wanna get sued — sees, or speaks to, his daughter Suri. But still, it seems clear that ever since Katie Holmes ALLEGEDLY tied the sheets together, swaddled Suri in a Scientology bathmat and climbed out the window at Chez Cruise and fled for New York and a divorce attorney, we have heard that Tom has barely spent any time with his youngest child.

Now, the man works a lot — Scientology is ALLEGEDLY expensive … ask Leah — and maybe Katie and Tom have a very clear-cut visitation rule, but still … Tom hasn’t seen Suri in eight hundred days. And, sure, maybe he does see her and maybe it's just behind closed doors ALLEGEDLY with a team of mediation lawyers in the room, and we don’t see it, but does that sound like the Tom Cruise who used to splash his ALLEGED love for Katie, and then their baby, all over the newspapers from the day this whole ALLEGED mess was arranged by a litigation team? I mean, Tom used to trot out Suri at the drop of a hat and now … eight hundred days.

Just sayin’. Oh, and … ALLEGEDLY.

The last time we talked 50 Cent it was about how maybe, or maybe not, he’s just a big old queen. And before that we talked about 50 Cent and that judgment against him for $7 million to the woman whose sex tape he posted online without her consent. 

And we heard his lawyers say that poor Fiddy was barely worth his name and had no money to pay. But, lord, that man is dumb, or something, because he recently posted an Instagram photo, and a video, of the inside of his fridge filled with stacks of money.

Yeah, nothing says “I cannot afford that seven mil” like an icebox full of cash. 

I’m waiting for his lawyers to pounce, saying it wasn’t his money … hell, it wasn’t even his refrigerator.

Taylor Swift likes to play herself off as the most wholesome of creatures; like she stepped right out of a Disney cartoon, with tiny little bluebirds carrying her coat for her and raccoons driving her limo. But … that might not be true.

According to BBC News, a bunch of endangered birds in New Zealand almost found themselves homeless this week after Swifty banished them from the set of her latest music video on the beach where they nest.

New Zealand conservationists are claiming that the beach belongs to the New Zealand dottorel and that the birds were at risk of losing their home when the crew responsible for working on Swifty’s new video, Cherokee Films, drove too many trucks onto the sand.

Now, Cherokee Films has since released a statement saying that Swifty and her team of cartoon lawyers aren’t at fault for this mess, and had no involvement in planning where on the beach the video would be shot; and they also claim they didn’t hurt any birdies or violate any permits.

Still, I wouldn’t be surprised to soon be seeing paparazzi shots of Taylor covered in cartoon bird sh*t.

Usually when we heard of Hollywood feuds it’s between a couple of D-list actresses. Not so this time, when the spat is between A-lister Channing Tatum and Z-lister Alex Pettyfer.

Pettyfer has a reputation in Hollywood of being a douchebag-psycho- diva-bad-boy and it was no secret that  Pettyfer and Channing Tatum had some major spats with each other during the filming of Magic Mike … which may explain Pettyfer’s absence from the sequel.

But now Pettyfer is trying to set the record straight about the tiffs … by admitting to them, and saying Channing was mean to him because Pettyfer is so sensitive … for a guy who ALLEGEDLY has the phrase ‘You Are Here’ tattooed about his boy bits.

When asked if the two butted heads on set of the 2012 flick he said yes … “Because Channing Tatum does not like me — and for many reasons … I was scared to speak. I actually did my work and I sat in the corner and listened to music because I had been told anything I did was wrong by my reps. I was very insecure as a human being. That also gave me a bad rep because everyone was like, ‘Alex doesn’t speak because he thinks he’s better than everyone else.’ That’s not true. I was just generally nervous and scared to be myself. I was in character.”

Wait. So he was quiet on the set, doing his job, working on his, ahem, craft, and made Channing hate him? Try harder.

Well, things got worse when Pettyfer, who was renting a home from one of Tatum’s friends during filming, skipped out without paying the bills; according to Pettyfer, he “couldn’t breathe” in the apartment because of mold and dust so he left and, um, “forgot” to pay rent due because his cousin had died … or the dog ate his lease … or something.

“All of a sudden, I got a very negative email from Channing saying, ‘Don’t f**k my friends. You owe money. Pay the f**king money. Don’t be a clown.’ And I really took that the wrong way, which I shouldn’t have, and emailed him back and said, ‘I’m in a real negative headspace and can you respect me for a moment and blah, blah, blah.’ And I got hounded through this time of grieving for money. By the end of it. I just said, ‘F—k them, what is money when life is so much more. I’m not paying.’ And I should have just paid. I think he was looking for an excuse to not like me.”

Okay, so what have we learned: men catfight as much as women and Alex Pettyfer is a douche.

Class dismissed.

So, yesterday we learned that Holland Taylor is a card-carrying lesbian and has  never officially “come out” because she’s pretty much always been out and hasn’t been hiding … except no one outside of her circle of friends and family knew it, but I digress.

Holland admitted that she’s currently in a serious relationship and her girlfriend brought up the idea of them getting married but Holland will not be divulging the name of said girlfriend because there’s a huge age difference between them… so I will.

ALLEGEDLY.

As a lot of sites have been saying, Holland’s much younger girlfriend is American Horror Story ­actress, and thirty-two years younger, Sarah Paulson. Sarah and Holland have been spotted out and about together during the past few months and, well, Sarah’s and Holland’s Twitter feeds are basically the two of them reTweeting what the other has already Tweeted.

It’s cute, no?

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Jake Gyllenhaal, on how he never felt the pressure of playing a gay role because of how he was raised:

“I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay.  I was just that age and that was just how it was, and my parents were very… You know, that’s how I was raised. Like super-progressive. And so it’s just something I took for granted, weirdly. At the time. I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways.”

A prime example that hate and ignorance and intolerance have to be taught, because children don’t act that way unless their parents raise them that way.

Good on Jake’s parents.

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Montel Williams, on being done with the GOP:

“I still consider myself conservative, but I long ago abandoned the party because I could see it being dragged down a path of intolerance and I see no place for myself, as a black American in the GOP proper, much less one who refuses to tell women what to do with their bodies, one who is a proud but responsible gun owner, one who as a matter of faith and principle cannot abide bigotry whether it be toward Muslims, LGBT individuals or anyone else.”

And that means the GOP wants nothing to do with Montel, either, because they spread fear and intolerance and judgment against anyone who isn’t rich, white, male and straight.

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Jeb No-Last-Name, on if he would support Trump for the presidency if he won the primary contest:

“Look, I’ve said … because anybody is better than Hillary Clinton. Let me just be clear about that. But I have great doubts about Donald Trump’s ability to be commander-in-chief … I’ll let the voters decide about Donald Trump. I’m pretty confident that the more they hear of him, the less likely he’s going to get the Republican nomination.”

And this is a Republican, who will vote for the man he thinks is completely unqualified to be president because at least he’s not Hillary.

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Holland Taylor, playwright and actress, coming out as gay and wondering about marriage:

“Well, my relationship is with a woman and I have not — given my generation [marriage] would not be something that would automatically occur to me. But she’s mentioned it because just from a spiritual point of view, from a heart point of view, as a — as a — as a deed that has a very rich symbolic gesture to it, it has its attraction. But it’s been a very casual conversation at this point. But it’s not — it would be a very private thing. I would not do that publicly. But as a symbol, as a pledge, as a plighting one’s troth I would see it — that it would be a wonderful thing to do.”

So, maybe, one day, Holland might feel as if she’s moved on from her own generation and decide that marriage is right.

I’m sure her girlfriend [and I’ll tell you who she is tomorrow] would love the idea.

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Carrie Fisher, on being told to lose 35 pounds before appearing in Star Wars: The Force Awakens: 

“They don’t want to hire all of me – only about three-quarters! Nothing changes: it’s an appearance-driven thing. I’m in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say get younger, because that’s how easy it is.”

God forbid Princess Leia be a curvy gal and not be able to fit into that old bikini, eh?

I wonder if they advised Harrison Ford to go back to his original Star Wars weight or if it’s just women who are treated this way.

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