Isn’t it fun to think about how stupid a person would have to be in order to ever consider hiring Rudy, and then think about how the then-sitting President of the United States was definitely that stupid?

There are no shortage of people, including writers on Jezebel, who have criticized Swift for using her breakups as song material. That said, I don’t think their behavior is entirely comparable. Aside from some statements very early in her career when she broke up with Joe Jonas (which he’s said she’s apologized to him…

Fuck this guy.

The “Jess and I send our love” part felt gross, too. It’s the kind of statement that would seem sincere and heartfelt coming from almost anyone else on earth, but “me and wife that you don’t know send our love to you, the struggling ex whose reputation I helped trash” doesn’t land the same.

He’s abusing her to this day with the reputational harm he constantly reminds people about. “Oh, I’m the nice caring guy.”

He’s still hurt over a the end of a teenaged romance, knowing the insane scrutiny they were under at the time? Cheating isn’t great, but they were teenagers. Get over it.

I agree. I’m hoping, as sick as it is to hope for this, that they’ve been threatened into silence. If they’ve just been silent of their own accord, they’re complicit.

I have a loved one with Bipolar Type 2 and have seen them spiral to the point where a conservatorship would have been something that should have been at least considered. I can understand, given what her behavior was 13 years ago, why the conservatorship was put in place at that time if she does actually have a mental…

I saw the link for the audio of her testimony on Twitter and listened to it before reading the transcript. As a casual fan who follows her on Instagram, I’ve often wondered how medicated she is, because she seems so...disconnected whenever she posts a video. She talks so fast, with a high voice, and just seems so off.

I’m not sure why you seem under the impression that someone who has experienced years of trauma and abuse at the hands of family members—primarily her own father—ought to be able to speak calmly about it for 20 minutes after years of being silenced and gaslit. And that she didn’t articulate her abuse to your…

The fact remains that people with mental illness can still be determined to have capacity. Just watched a man incapable of living alone sign a bunch of papers today - unpressured - to agree to his treatment regimen and Advanced Directive. This case is absurd from my perspective (someone who works with people pre- and…

Same. I've never had any dog in the free Britney fight because it's so hard to tell what's going on from the outside. But Jesus, that's exactly how you said it - shockingly evil.

This is what it sounds like when the traumatized try to speak about their trauma.

I went through a period of time where I was in and out of jail and the psych ward. Nobody ever forced me to stop using drugs or forced me to get an IUD. (I...was once court ordered to leave and not come back to a certain state for a period of 1 year, but that’s another story.)

Man, I don’t like Britney. But she made the music, she went on tour, she put in the hours. Her family literally leeched off her (I'm looking at you too, Jamie Lynn). She made the money. If she's batshit crazy, it's her money. It's her life. Let her live. Leave her alone. 

She sounds like a woman that is very nervous trying to tell the court and the world all she has been through and condense it down to about 20 mins. 

What are you talking about? She just did the Pieces of Me tour in 2018 which was 31 shows in 3 months, and had done Britney Live in Concert in Asia the year before that. And her residency in Vegas was more than 15 hours a week. It takes a lot of fucking work to put on a show. Saying that that’s the most it took is…

yes. she’s a “danger” to the wallets of others, not herself. 

If she’s able to tour and do a Vegas residency, then there’s no justification for the level of control Britney describes. This isn’t just fans filling in the blanks. The fact that her team felt they could even ask her to perform at that level undermines the argument that she’s too sick to be able to make basic…

I work in medicine, but honestly I had no clue you could legally force someone to take lithium.