Oh, Julianne, you know I love you and my criticism is directed squarely at corporate meddling in editorial direction, not at hands-on editorial. I’m still here after more than a decade because of that trust.

This is the kind of professional bitch-slap that I can only fantasize about giving.

YAAAAAAS QWEEEN, PLEASE REMEMBER TO BREATHE AND PRACTICE SELF-CARE DURING THIS VERY TRAUMATIC TIME FOR YOU. WE CANT WAAAAIT TO SEE YOUR SNARK SOON

Can we agree that celebrity endorsements of ANY candidate are irrelevant? The same goes for political endorsements imho.

Hello, we are currently down people and yet five of us will be on tonight liveblogging and writing about the debates as ever. One post does not signal a change in editorial strategy! I realize and sympathize that there is a temptation to believe that we are flipping the switch given all the recent fuckery yonder, but…

This, truly, is the autumn of Big Mick Energy.

Oh shit. I thought the first half of the video was great... I’m so glad I kept watching. “New York Irish cop energy” has given me the giggles.

I’m just here to be off-topic and report a murder.

I’m just waiting for the moment when the press catches the home health aide reminding Trumplethinskin that it’s been 2 hours since he went poopy, so he needs to try to go poopy again.

Yes.

So Trump wrote that because Zelensky is spelled wrong. Do you think he spelled it wrong because he doesn’t care enough or because he sucks that bad at spelling in general? Or did someone else spell it incorrectly so that Trump would pronounce it correctly?

THIS IS THE FINAL WORD FROM THE PRES OF THE U.S.

Here’s the money quote:

Yeah. I know fuck all about sports, so I didn’t entirely understand the Saturday versus Tuesday issue. I was glad to hear that Kaep initially agreed to the apparently bizarre workout, and I was hopeful that something good might come of all of this.

psychopaths don’t get nervous when they lie.

Yes it must be such a relief to be an unbridled psychopath, so freeing. I kid- we’re all better off with someone, somewhere having a conscience, gracias

I would love to have the massive self confidence that it takes to lie so blatantly and then be so completely unrepentant when caught. Or maybe it’s self delusion. Either way, I bet on a day to day basis she has less anxiety and depression than I do.

A good lawyer would have just crossed out “or indirectly” and left it at that. It’s really not that hard to turn contracts to your advantage if you know what you’re doing.  Maybe Kaep’s attorneys suggested that, maybe they didn’t. We’ll never know unless we get a copy of their suggested edits to the docs. It’s highly…

This appears to be the relevant paragraph:

Sorry, but it’s a little gross to criticize his weight when we slam him for the body-shaming bullshit he pulls on a daily basis. We’re supposed to be better. And I know there are people who will say it’s not getting us anywhere, or we need to fight fire with fire, or blah blah blah, but I guess I don’t want to get…