I’m still sick too. I think anyone who isn’t is just better at compartmentalizing than we are, not braver or more motivated to change anything.

The rest of the money goes to pay for the lawyers. She is giving any leftover to efforts to overhaul our election system. Personally, I hope she gives it to Eric Holder to aid him in his effort to abolish the electoral college.

Well, I didn’t like her pouty behavior at the convention, or her recent appearances on Bill Maher. But I do believe her recent “revolution” comments are in reference to the political process of moving Dems to the left, just like most people right now. We’re going to be hearing that word for the next four to eight…

Wait...the revolution she’s referring to is just the rebuilding of the Democratic party as a more modern and progressive organization - not an actual war, right?

Much of that was on Hillary’s platform. But it didn’t matter to rump voters. I personally don’t know any rump voters, and I’m surrounded by them, who would vote for any of that. They would see all of that as bullshit government proposals from bullshit weaklings to trick even weaker weaklings into voting them into…

My office is full of them. :(

Yeah, because “woman”, especially when used by sexist assholes, isn’t a word loaded with bullshit and supporting many tired stereotypes.

Yes, but this is division of income. I don’t think it’s called support or alimony in their divorce papers. My understanding is that she wanted that and was repeatedly turned down by the judge. This $7 million is a portion of Depp’s income and hasn’t been taxed yet.

Their divorce settlement indicates this money is the division of income. Depp’s share to her. It’s subject to taxation and to be paid by the recipient.

No, you are making an assumption that I was attempting to divine his motives. It’s an incorrect assumption. I was stating that his actions benefit her with regard to her tax burden. To attempt to correlate that fact with any sense of who has been good or bad in this case leads to nonsense. Because we all have our…

That article only supports my thought. I also was not commenting on whether or not Depp is a bad person.

Nice intentions or not, he definitely has done her a solid. And I don’t believe this action on his part will benefit his tax bill.
If he gave it to her, she would have to declare it as income from a divorce settlement because that’s what it is. It wouldn’t matter how quickly she turned it over to the charities; she…

Well, I think actually Depp is really helping her out here. If he gave her all that money, and especially all this year, then it would considered income as part of a divorce settlement. Then she would donate the full amount as she promised and be stuck with a tax bill of at least $1.5 million. But these donations made…

Canada???? Omg. You just blew my mind. Damn.

Strange that the sexism is present in women as well, isn’t it? I have discovered this myself in podcasts; I’ve noticed that if I’m annoyed with a voice, its usually coming from a female. But with me, its the vocal fry. I hope its just because I’m going deaf and therefore they’re more exhausting to listen to when the…

Good point. I think the intensity of The Hillary Hate has something to do with with how people bond in social groups. The Hillary Hate was well established before President Obama became famous, so Michelle has experienced some benefit in being a newcomer.

“With any luck, it’ll be staid and adult and with no funny business abroad.”

Me too! And wouldn’t the act of taking the pic count as voyeurism or peeping? Aren’t they illegal? I feel like its a type of assault, but I haven’t seen many people talking about that aspect of this. Body shaming is the least of the very awful things she did here.
I hope society makes an example of her. This can’t…

I see misogyny all over the place. Not sure it seeing it in comments on news article should have any bearing on how we view criminal trials. Sometimes I try to remind people that there are plenty of ways to insult the accused without resorting to misogyny, ageism, fat shaming, ugly shaming, or whatever other insult…

I think her actions should definitely be considered a crime. I can’t say which one. That is for someone with legal experience. But we can’t allow this kind of behavior in society.